Tragic Sense of Life, Paperback

Reducere. I intended at first to write a short Prologue to this English translation of my Del Sentimiento Tr gico de la Vida, which has been undertaken by my...

Louisa Hilliard, the last descendant of one of Charleston's oldest families, finds her quiet life turned upside down when she comes upon the diary ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Molly Birnbaum"A rich, engrossing, and deeply intelligent story....This is a book I won't soon forget."--Molly Wizenberg, b...

Hedda Gabler is one of the most controversial female characters in Western drama, with the meaning and value of her tragic fate hotly disputed. Fre...

Reducere. "The Return of the Soldier" is British author Rebecca West's remarkable 1918 novel of the struggle of a World War I veteran and the three women who...

Reducere. In 2004, bad boy Billy Fingers Cohen, a homeless small-time drug dealer and addict in a state of drug induced euphoria ran into a busy intersection...

Reducere. This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection--a finalist for the National Book Award--demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extr...

Now in paperback, reporter Elizabeth Mitchell introduces her readers to the mysterious, mercurial world of horse racing in a book that's as fast-pa...

Reducere. The third volume in this powerful trilogy, The Cattle Cars Are Waiting follows the tragic fate of the inhabitants of the ghetto. Chava Rosenfarb, h...

Reducere. In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a m...

Reducere. "Ball has created a voice that echoes the beloved narrators of J. D. Salinger and John Green. . . . With her tragic past, brilliant mind and subver...

Reducere. Description"Powerful, " "Compelling, " "A story well worth writing" - this is what people are saying about this honest, and sometimes brutal, true ...

Reducere. Head Cases takes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of stories, at once true and strange, from the world of brain damage...

Reducere. "Seton, at her best, has a gaudy vitality all her own, and a sure sense of theatre. This reader for one, enjoyed The Turquoise enormously." -- New ...

Reducere. Leonard S. Marcus... has masterfully written about a fascinating woman who in her short life changed literature for the very young. I was throrough...

Reducere. DescriptionGenesis is the beginning of the Bible but it has got the beginning of everything else in it. Here is the beginning of the universe; the ...

DescriptionThis famous book, the inspiration behind Kate Bush's 1985 hit song 'Cloudbusting', is the extraordinary account of life as friend, confi...

Driven into exile from Carmena, Spain, in 1577, to escape the threat of death by the Inquisition, the Robledo family immigrates first to New Spain ...

Reducere. The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-win...

Reducere. Christi Randolph is a strong-willed sixteen-year-old free spirit who is facing family decisions that will result in disrupting her whole life. Her ...

Reducere. Three things I know to be true: Masculinity isn't toxic There are a lot of good men in this world I can always be a better man After three tragic w...

Reducere. She's dying to love him. After the tragic death of her twin, British concert pianist Euri begins channeling a stranger in America, an otherworldly ...

A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still ...

Reducere. DescriptionSometimes a family experiences a roller coaster of emotions that are too painful to confront. They are simply suppressed; life limps on....

Mount Washington, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, is the highest peak in the northeastern United States. It is often cited-by its ...

Reducere. Austin Blackstone lives and breathes for his club-his family.At the age of seventeen, tragedy brought Austin and his sister to Polson, Montana, to ...

DescriptionEarly twentieth-century Singapore is a place where a person can disappear, and Harriet Gordon hopes to make a new life for herself there...

Reducere. To many, Tommy Bolin was the legitimate heir to Jimi Hendrix's rock guitar throne. Stints with the James Gang and Deep Purple - as well as solo alb...

Reducere. In this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link looks into the cold-case files of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their ...

Reducere. Life, for most of us, feels like a movie we've arrived to forty minutes late. Sure, good things happen, sometimes beautiful things. But tragic thin...

Reducere. A personal memoir of a woman's journey through pyschotherapy. In middle age, Janyne began to sense that her wonderful, successful life was a cover ...

The Scottish Lowlands, October 1789. A year has come and gone since Jamie McKie fled for his life, arriving at Auchengray in search of sanctuary an...

Reducere. Diane LeBow's stories, like her life, take you to places and experiences you've probably never imagined. They are passionate, poignant, funny, some...

Reducere. An Amish widow with newborn twins discovers her deceased husband had disturbing secrets. As she tries to come to grips with the past, she considers...

DescriptionIn the early twentieth century, a teenage Greek girl in Constantinople loses both her parents and, together with her younger sister, get...

Reducere. Russ and Nicole Bell were an upwardly mobile happy couple: two kids, big house, fun hobbies, marvelous life. But something wasn't quite right-with ...

Reducere. Description"The talented Molly Fader will keep you turning the pages right down to the oh-so-satisfying final twist."--Susan Wiggs, New York Times ...